Overview
In this role you will lead AI-driven transformation initiatives across The Economist Group, partnering with Editorial, EIU, Enterprise Sales, B2C and central functions to identify high-impact opportunities and embed AI-enabled ways of working. You shape end-to-end workflows, build prototypes and drive production implementations with cross-functional teams. You will prioritize opportunities with clear strategic and commercial value and measure benefits to scale adoption. This is a hands-on, commercially minded role focused on measurable outcomes and sustainable change. You join a collaborative culture that values curiosity, integrity and innovation, helping to unlock trusted insights at scale
Pay / Benefits
- pension or 401(k)
- private health insurance
- counselling and wellbeing resources
- Work From Anywhere program
- generous annual and parental leave
- volunteering days and moving-home days
Responsibilities
- Partner with business areas to identify, assess and prioritise AI automation opportunities
- Understand current workflows and reimagine them end to end beyond simple digitisation
- Define problem statements, success measures, scope and benefits, ranking low-value use cases
- Build working prototypes, models and integrations and test with users
- Take proven use cases into production with appropriate resources
- Drive adoption through training and embedding into daily workflows
- Track usage, outcomes and realised benefits to refine or scale initiatives
- Report progress and blockers into the AI Internal Automation programme rhythm
- Stay current on AI tooling and assess applicability of new developments
Key requirements
- 4+ years in transformation, consulting, product, operations, business analysis or similar cross-functional roles
- Practical experience applying AI, automation, data or digital tools to improve processes
- Hands-on experience building with AI and agentic tools
- Commercial judgement and ability to focus on high-impact opportunities
- Ability to understand and redesign operational processes around user needs
- Experience leading discovery activities and defining target-state processes
- Experience supporting adoption and embedding new capabilities into daily workflows
- Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and aligning priorities
- stakeholder management
- strategic thinking
- communication
- AI and automation tooling
- data handling and integration
- prototyping and rapid experimentation
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